A new TV series pitch has emerged from Hornet Inc. It’s called The Bloody Band Aidz, and it follows a group of world-travelling, hell-raising rockers who happen to be blood-soaked band-aids. Well, in the series, they group is no longer travelling anywhere – as part of a court-ordered mandate, the rockers have been ordered to be the house band at a New Jersey dive called Dongs Place. The series was created by Aaron Stewart (who we interviewed back in 2005) and Todd Lamb. Stewart directed this music video below, and Efrain Cintron animated.
[NSFW - animated nudity and sex and buckets of red-hot bloooooooood!]
FWAK! Animation’s Eddie Mort and Lili Chin, the amazing duo who created ¡Mucha Lucha!. and the Flash-feature Los Campeones De La Lucha Libre, have started a great new blog – TOONBOOM-BASTIC. It’s all about the new Toon Boom software Animate, which launched late last year. You’ll see the twosome building shots, displaying software features and discussing their opinions on Animate, as well as Storyboard Pro. Here’s a video illustrating a cool trick with the Z-axis that helps create simple depth to a character.
I think we may have overdosed a bit on “hope” last year, but a 2D animation student at Vanarts in Vancouver has put his own spin on the emotion with this Flash-animated film below titled… Hope. The short was written, designed, animated and directed by Fernando H Gama Cintra, who originally hails from Brazil. Those painterly backgrounds sure give me “hope” that 2D digital animation is here to stay.
Two of Alex Butera’s favorite things are Batman and Ninja Turtles. Well, last year he put out a real unique short called Baman Piderman that went on to become a huge-ass hit on YouTube. His MassArt student film, produced in 2008, goes more in the Ninja Turtles route. It’s titled SuperGo!, and it features a tribe of comedic but noble crime-fighters who often bite off more than they can chew. He used Flash as an ink and paint tool (but he only painted the intro), and the animation feels very full and lively. The film is a collaboration with his girlfriend, Lindsay Small.
